Occupation Novelist Period 1961–1999 Language English Name Anne Worboys | Nationality New Zealander Role Writer Citizenship British | |
Pen name Anne Eyre Worboys;
Annette Eyre;
Vicky Maxwell;
Anne Worboys Died June 2007, Leigh, United Kingdom Notable awards Romantic Novelists' Association Awards Books The Lion of Delos, The magnolia room, Chosen Child | ||
Anne Eyre Worboys (1920 – June 2007) was a New Zealand-British writer of 40 romance and suspense novels. She also signed her novels as Annette Eyre and Anne Worboys, and under the pseudonym of Vicky Maxwell. In 1977, her novel Every Man A King (a.k.a. Rendezvous with Fear) won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Personal life
Born Annette Isobel Eyre on 1920 in Auckland, New Zealand, daughter of Agnes Helen (Blair) and Thomas Edwardes Eyre. She served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, from 1942 to 1945.
On 20 September 1946, she married Walter Brindy Worboys, and had two daughters, Carolyn and Robin.
Annette Worboys died on June 2007 in Leigh, Kent, England, UK.
Career and works
She started writing romances as Anne Eyre Worboys and Annette Eyre, after five romances under the pseudonym of Vicky Maxwell, she wrote as Anne Worboys suspense novels with some romantic elements. She won the Mary Elgin Award in 1975, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1977 by her novel Every Man A King (a.k.a. Rendezvous with Fear).